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Between the drunken 'mother of destruction' and the sober 'angel of the house'. Hidden representations of women's drinking in Polish and British public discourses in the second half of the 19th century

2020/39/D/HS3/00568

Keywords:

alcohol drunkenness discourse 19th century women

Descriptors:

  • HS3_005:
  • HS3_001:

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Dorota Dias-Lewandowska 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 8

Call: SONATA 16 - announced on 2020-09-15

Amount awarded: 297 887 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2021-06-09

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2025-06-08

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (3)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (3)
  1. Expulsion, Incarceration, Incapacitation: Policing Drinking Women in Poland and Britain in the Second Half of the 19th Century
    Authors:
    Dorota Dias-Lewandowska, Craig Stafford
    Academic press:
    Cultural and Social History (rok: 2025, tom: 22(2), strony: 205-226), Wydawca: Taylor&Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/14780038.2025.2465120 - link to the publication
  2. Women, Home, and Alcohol: Constructed Façades and Social Norms in Nineteenth-Century Polish and British Representations of Female Drinking Practices
    Authors:
    Dorota Dias-Lewandowska, Pam Lock
    Academic press:
    Journal of Victorian Culture (rok: 2023, tom: volume 28, issue 2, strony: 227-242), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/jvcult/vcad004 - link to the publication
  3. How did investigations into spontaneous human combustion influence alcohol medicine? An examination of the medical and literary discussions that brought the two together
    Authors:
    Pam Lock, Iain Smith
    Academic press:
    Addiction (rok: 2024, tom: 120 (5), strony: 1051-1057), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/add.16739 - link to the publication
  1. The Monstrous Figure of the Drunken woman in Dickens and Eliot
    Authors:
    Pam Lock
    Book:
    The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture (rok: 2026, tom: brak, strony: brak), Wydawca: Edinburgh University Press
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. Monstrous and broken: The Drunkard in Anti-Drink Literature
    Authors:
    Pam Lock
    Book:
    The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture: From Conviviality to Cursed Thirst (rok: 2026, tom: brak, strony: brak), Wydawca: Edinburgh University Press
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  3. Intoxicated by Anger and Drink: Women, Alcohol, and Anger in British and Polish Public Discourses
    Authors:
    Dorota Dias-Lewandowska, Pam Lock
    Book:
    A Woman Scorned: Reflections and Inquiries on the Figure of the Angry Woman (rok: 2026, tom: brak, strony: brak), Wydawca: Edinburgh University Press
    Status:
    Accepted for publication